Arecibo Radio Telescope

Well here it is, the one that literally hundreds of you have submitted over the past few months. We held off posting it because it would be so much better to see this is high-res. However here it is (finally), the Arecibo radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It is officially the largest single-dish radio telescope ever built; it’s 305 metres in diameter, 50 metres deep, and it covers an area of roughly 73,000 square metres! Wow, huge.

You may recognise the telescope from somewhere… this is the where they collect the data for [email protected], it was in Contact and it was also used as Alec Trevelyan’s antenna in GoldenEye!

Wouldn’t remember what side it was on…all I remember is that it was taken from the visitor platform.

As for the hi-res…I’m not sure I understand what you’re asking. e.g. why NOT hi-res?

I have many other shots of the dish, including a very hi-res image that combined two shots into a vertical panorama showing the receiver assembly and the dish. These shots are on my personal photo album served on home bandwidth. I daren’t link it for fear of getting swamped with hits. My bandwidth can’t handle it.

Lee: I was referring to the hi-res images of P.R. not the dish. The eastern end of the island is much more populated (San Juan in particular) and is the only part that I have visited. I would like to visit again via Google Maps.

The map was updated a long time ago, but now there’s a 3D model and everything. Look it up one more time, please.

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